Pygame get_pressed()

Question

I've been checking a lot of tutorials, I've been testing it myself, I read the official papers a hundred of times. How the heck does pygame.key.get_pressed() work? It looks like it isn't used at all in gaming. Can you suggest me some raw code, no ketchup where I can get a good example?

Could you please better explain what you are trying to do? – Qwerty Jan 29 '18 at 15:02 — Qwerty, Jan 29 '18 at 15:02

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 31 '18 at 16:33

get_pressed is just another way of getting keypresses

You could do this in an event pumper:

keys = pygame.key.get_pressed()
if keys[pygame.K_w]:
    # Do stuff

Although just using the KEYDOWN event is better as it adds a delay between presses.:

# At the beginning of the loop...
for event in pygame.event.get():
    if event.type == pygame.KEYDOWN:
        if event.key == pygame.K_w:
            # Do stuff

Pygame get_pressed()

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